Senate debates
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Bill 2007; Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007; Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008
In Committee
12:36 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source
The head title of section 28, the section you are referring to, is ‘Development of acceptable use policy’. Effectively, the remainder of this is a guideline under which the policy should be constructed. A particular example of the use of ‘annoying’ is in the guidelines under 28(3)(a)(i) to (vi). Subsection(3)(a)(i) states:
- (i)
- that contravenes, or forms part of an activity that contravenes, a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory ...
It is effectively saying that an acceptable use policy would go further than that, because continual, annoying messages are unlawful. So, rather than just having a provision that deals with one specific area, we have been efficient in ensuring that the lawfulness of computer use generally is also dealt with as part of these provisions.
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